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package org.deegree.model.feature.schema;

import org.deegree.datatypes.QualifiedName;

/**
 * Represents a property type in a GML feature type definition.
 * 
 * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:mschneider@lat-lon.de">Markus Schneider </a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:deshmukh@lat-lon.de">Anup Deshmukh </a>
 * @author last edited by: $Author: poth $
 * 
 * @version 2.0, $Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2006/08/24 06:40:27 $
 * 
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface PropertyType {

    /**
     * Returns the name of the property.
     * 
     * @return the name of the property
     */
    public QualifiedName getName();

    /**
     * Returns the code of the data type that the property contains.
     * 
     * @return the code of the data type that the property contains
     */
    public int getType();

    /**
     * Returns the minimum number of occurrences of the property within a feature. The method
     * returns 0 if the property is nillable.
     * 
     * @return minimum number of occurrences of the property, 0 if the property is nillable
     */
    int getMinOccurs();

    /**
     * Returns the maximum number of occurrences of the property within a feature. The method
     * returns -1 if the number of occurences is unbounded.
     * 
     * @return maximum number of occurrences of the property, -1 if the number of occurences is
     *         unbounded
     */
    int getMaxOccurs();

}
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